BARON’S STRONG BREW present SLIPKNOT “The Subliminal Verses Tour” Live in Singapore on August 16th at Fort Canning Park, 8pm It's the only show in Asia and Slipknot is going to rock Singapore like its never been rocked before!
I'll be at the the front stage kicking & jumping the time of my life among the maggots!! ha ha
See what the press says...
Concert promoter Lauretta Alabons of LAMC Productions said: "Slipknot is the biggest metal act to play Singapore since Metallica first came here in 1993.
It's a real milestone to bring them here." Slipknot's history is a genuine small-town-to-bright-lights success story.
But despite all they have achieved since they appeared in 1996, critics would still rather demonise them, just because they wear masks and don't sing love songs.
Speaking to Today from his hotel room in Zurich where the band had just played to a sellout audience, Slipknot bassist Paul Gray said: "It is mind-boggling that people still focus on image after all these years. When we (came up with our image), we thought it would be a cool way to get honest reactions from people at our shows. People didn't know what we looked like, so we could get truthful opinions about our music!"
Gray is soft-spoken and surprisingly affable, something you wouldn't expect from a man who wears a bloodied pig mask during his performances.
"People get us wrong all the time. We got banned from playing in Greece and Ireland, which was funny. We do get all these moral groups calling us evil and Satanic but I suppose that happens when you form a band and play heavy metal," he sighed.
However, there is an upside.
"This may be cynical, but the way I see it, negativity brings us fans. People get curious and we win some new fans along the way. The truth is, I'm not worried too much about what people say about us," Gray said.
Calling himself an outsider, the bassist added that, rather than being influenced by Satanic scriptures, Slipknot is actually a product of the band members' surroundings.
"Slipknot is the result of growing up in Iowa," he said. "It's a very bitter, bleak place, basically the worst part of America. There's nothing for young people to do, so they end up messing up their lives." "Growing up in a place like we did, I think we can safely say that we know about isolation. Maybe that's why kids take solace in our music. They can tell that we know exactly what they're feeling - that reality is tough."
Gray also puts paid to claims that a typical Slipknot show, while being an intense sonic and visual experience, is also incredibly violent.
"Our shows may be brutal but they are also therapeutic. That's what we do - the kids come to our shows and go crazy. Then they walk out, cleansed of all the bad stuff that has built up in them." If nothing else, he added, Slipknot is about being unpretentious.
"We have always wanted Slipknot to be totally and just about the music," he said. "Why should anybody see our faces? What have our clothes got to do with anything? All we care about is developing the most insane live shows and making our fans happy. When people tell us we're intense musicians, we take that as a huge compliment."
Source:MediaCorp News
